Development of ocular dominance stripes, orientation selectivity, and orientation columns

Swindale, N. V. (2003). In: Van Ooyen, A., ed. Modeling Neural Development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 245-271.

Abstract

Neurons in the somatosensory and visual cortices respond to spatially localised and specific kinds of stimuli. For example, many visual cortex neurons have a preference for stimulation through one of the two eyes (ocular dominance) and for stimuli of a particular orientation (orientation selectivity). This chapter reviews the variety of models that have been proposed to explain the development of ocular dominance and orientation selectivity in mammalian visual cortex.